My Dad Wears Mandals

My Dad Wears Mandals

  My Dad Wears Mandals I remember when the Mandals craze began.  At least I remember when it crept upon my family and took my dad hostage in its thorny little grip.  It was the year 2000. Many remember that fateful year as the year that planes were supposed to...
“Ass-Effects” a Promising New Drug

“Ass-Effects” a Promising New Drug

Ass-Effects (Aciphex) may cause diarrhea. Ass-Effects, a real drug actually spelled “AcipHex,” is a new drug from Eisai Company, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan.  The drug’s country of origin should explain the lack of understanding of how this drug sounds on...
An American Dream … In India

An American Dream … In India

I belong to this company that pays you to accept email ads.  It’s not too annoying and right now, I have $76 built up in my account.  With all the advertising out there that I get bombarded with and offered no compensation, this is a welcome change. About a...
Thirty Years Later

Thirty Years Later

Second grade.  Mrs. Mim’s class.  It was a time of innocence and playfulness.  We were kids who knew nothing of the gas shortage or the real world.  The nation had not yet tasted inflation, political correctness hadn’t been invented and computers were the...
A Myriad of Grammar Problems

A Myriad of Grammar Problems

 I’ve written about how our nation’s spelling acuities have decreased since the advent of the internet.  As a people, we spell bad.  Real bad.  But something that often escapes us is how bad our grammar is. Now granted, I have a Computer Science degree,...